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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Second Language Writing is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	130
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing	56
Book Review	47
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled	45
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection	45
Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing	41
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency	41
Generative AI: Same same but different?	41
The effects of task complexity on second language writing processes and products in computer-assisted collaborative writing	34
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers	32
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance	32
Book review	30
Book review	27
Editorial Board	26
Book Review	26
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	26
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	26
Editorial Board	25
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder	23
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes	22
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing	22
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback	22
Editorial Board	20
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland	19
Editorial Board	15

Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance	14
CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration	14
Book review	14
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach	14
Editorial Board	13
Book Review	13
Book review	13
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments	13
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L2	13
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement	12
Book review	12
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing	12
JSLW editorial for March 2025	12
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers	12
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”	12
Teachers’ conceptualizations of digital multimodal composing in L2 writing	11
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation	11
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions	11
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness	10
Book review	10
Transpacific telecollaboration and L2 writing: Influences of interpersonal dynamics on peer feedback and revision uptake	10
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing	9
Editorial	9
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF	9
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies	9
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing	8
Editorial Board	8
Book Review	8
The development and validation of a scale on student AI literacy in L2 writing: A domain-specific perspective	8
Book review	8
Scholarly trends and representations of L2 writers in second language writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study	8
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language	7
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education	7
Book review	7
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak	7
Book Review	7
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach	7
Book Review	7
Towards a GELT-informed pedagogy for multilingual writing: Expanding Tardy’s case	7
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue	7
Promoting second language writing autonomy through digital multimodal composing	7
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing	7
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality	7
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment	7
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale	6
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing	6
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing	6
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation	6
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan	6
Editorial Board	6

Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency	6
Book Review	5
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	5
Book Review	5
Editorial Board	5
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting	5
Editorial Board	5
Book review	5
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective	5
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance	4
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education	4
Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing	4
Book Review	4
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing	4
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development	4
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends	3
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process	3
Secondary school English teachers’ application of artificial intelligence-guided chatbot in the provision of feedback on student writing: An activity theory perspective	3
Book review	3
March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	3
Zooming in on the process-product nexus of meaning-related revisions: A micro-analytic approach to keystroke logging data	3
Expertise in second language writing instruction	3
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource	3
Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom	3
Book Review	3
Book review	3
Editorial Board	3
Critical language awareness and cautious transnationalist work	3
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples	3
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省	2
Book review	2
June 2025 JSLW annotated bibliography	2
Book review	2
Editorial Board	2
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review	2
March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	2
Book review	2
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction	2
Computer-mediated collaborative writing in L2 classrooms: A systematic review	2
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	2
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing	2
Book review	2
Book review	2
Book review	2
Book review	1
From the Editors: June, 2022	1
Book Review	1
The case for a GELT paradigm in teaching multilingual writing	1
Incorporating digital multimodal composition in content teaching: A multimodal analysis of students’ legal popularization videos	1
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing	1
Enhancing genre instruction on research proposal introductions with an online academic writing tutor	1
Book Review	1
Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Western-trained Vietnamese teachers’ EFL writing instruction: A collaborative autoethnography of tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective	1
Book review	1
Verb argument constructions in argumentative essays by college-level Asian learners of English: Exploring the effects of English proficiency, acquisition context, and topic	1
Text mediation and collaborative meaning-making: Language support for an EAL academic author	1
Book review	1
Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities	1
Exploring EFL learners’ engagement and draft quality in a multi-stage expository writing task using model texts as a feedback facilitator: A mixed-methods study	1
Book Review	1
Book Review	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Editorial	1
Book review	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Testing crowdsourcing as a means of recruitment for the comparative judgement of L2 argumentative essays	1
Book review	1